evening walk on Hannahston

The geraniums are coming along well in the front garden.  i don't usually plant doubles ,they being no good for bees...but these are an interesting shape.

 The May is out! The flowers that is....

 local alpacas

 and sheeps

 everything is dry....

 and we can see home..the green roof in the middle

 the wildlife pool is getting shallower and overgrown..no swans this year

 and just outside the nature reserve/woodland of Hannahston, fields are being cut, I think for haylage ..or could be silage...

 back on the path to home

drawing

 view from a cafe in Gourock

and a hospital chair...good news, Pirate's first cataract op results are good,one month on.
Onwards to the next eye..we'll get two or three weeks' notice, sometime in the next three months.....

Meanwhile we've started getting out on our bikes again...we've even had shorts weather!!

Gourock day out....Gates and fences

Gourock day out ...Clyde Shipping

Back home

The  car handover!..thanks bro!!  I now have the same car,three years younger with a quarter of the miles on the clock
Then a long long drive home,nearly 450 miles. The drive was good, apart from getting round Bristol- thanks to an accident on the motorway, the section after our exit was closed and everyone had to go our way for a few miles. It was a relief to get to Wales.   We roll up through the Marches and rejoin the main north south , west coast route , west of Manchester.  Shorter than the motorway, less stressful, plenty to see and decent food stops!

Supper was at Tebay, as the rooks came home to roost

Its a good stop, being an independent services, selling local food and goods.
Back home again...

Too many other things to do...distracting from kiln mending and gardening and bike riding!

Today it has been raining softly and steadily..so housework has been the order of the day with the impending visit of The Oily One and girlfriend. It will be great to see them

'night all

Sunset with crows' nest in Yeovil

its a dogs life.....

that and arguing as terrier siblings only can.....